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At that time, Xie Hengyan was still in a daze as Xie Cong disappeared out of nowhere and couldn't get out. The next moment, the hull trembled violently, and the sparks generated by the constant friction between the broken planks sputtered in all directions, instantly igniting the fire at his feet. The pungent black smoke gushed out suddenly!

"Why are you in a daze!"

Yin Chun stretched out his big hand, and suddenly encircled Xie Hengyan's limp and weak waist. During this period, he felt the sound of tearing wind like knives, gouging out incessantly in his ears, and then Xie Hengyan was forced to bury his head into Yin Chun's chest, and then He was crumpled into a ball and wrapped tightly in his arms, and said in a deep voice, "Hold on to me!"

Xie Hengyan asked hoarsely, "What?"

Yin Chun didn't answer, and then raised his leg, kicking open the only wooden window in the sealed room.In an instant, Xie Hengyan understood what was coming, and immediately struggled frantically in his arms: "No... no!"

However, Yin Chun didn't give him a chance to resist at all, and took the puppet with him, turned his body forward and stepped over the window sill, and turned directly out of the cabin.

The sea water was directly outside the window, and there was basically no room for them to stay. The two of them fell down in a ball, splashing water several feet high with a plop.

Unexpectedly, once Xie Hengyan got in the water, he would be a mad dog that died. Before Yin Chu could say a word, a tendon in the puppet's brain was completely broken, and suddenly his hands and feet began to thump !

"I won't go into the water, I won't go into the water, I won't go into the water!" Xie Hengyan shouted hoarsely, almost in a daze, "Take me up, up!"

"The ship is sinking, where do you want to go!"

"I don't care, I don't soak in water! Don't soak in water! Let go... let me go, let me go!!!"

Originally, Yin Chun was not bad at water, but Xie Hengyan choked up several saliva, and his throat was filled with the salty taste of sea water.In the end, he had no choice but to hold out Xie Hengyan's paws and calves together, and at the same time shouted coldly: "If you move again, I won't care about you!"

As soon as these words came out, the world instantly fell silent.Xie Hengyan seemed to be dumb, silently hanging on Yin Chun's neck, not daring to make a sound, only her two legs were still convulsing slightly underwater, as if she was terribly frightened.

Yin Chun knew that puppets were afraid of water, seeing him like this, suddenly felt sad for no reason.Then he raised his hand, pressed gently on Xie Hengyan's shoulder, and comforted him in a low voice: "It won't be long. Go find a boat, and you'll be safe in a while."

Xie Hengyan couldn't speak, and could only hear the whine of "Wuwuwu" in his throat, his eyes flickered scarlet, which was exactly the same as the scene of him falling into the water on the mountain that day.

Yin Chun said, "Hold me well and don't move around."

Xie Hengyan was startled, but his expression darkened, and he whispered: "Otherwise, you... let's go, just leave me here."

But his voice was too low, buzzing and trembling like a mosquito, Yin Chu was busy paddling, and couldn't hear a word at all: "What did you say?"

Xie Hengyan didn't speak anymore, resting her chin on his shoulder, only her wet eyes were left with a faint red light on the sea surrounded by smoke.

Yin Chun only thought that he was afraid again, so he continued to comfort him in a slow voice: "I can swim, you don't have to be afraid."

The two hugged each other, trying to impress each other's strength, and desperately floated toward the sea.The burning cargo ship in front of me was quickly burnt to pieces under the high temperature, and the scorched sails turned into loose sand-like dust, including decks and railings, and many other wooden things, all swirling down. When it fell into the water, it sparked a dazzling flame.

And Xie Hengyan watched the whole ship sinking faintly in his eyes. It was clearly not far away, but it seemed to be far away from him. Many emotions were mixed together, but he couldn't figure it out.

Yin Chun guessed that he was reminiscing about what Xie Cong said just now - thinking about it now, it is indeed a bit chilling.Just like what Xie Hengyan said before, the puppet has no heart, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know pain.

Regardless of his own life, he rushed into the fire without hesitation, just to confirm Xie Cong's life and death.But looking back, Xie Cong left him here, turned around and left alone, before leaving, he said coldly... let him and Yin Chun "die together".

Perhaps only at that moment, Yin Chun suddenly understood why Xie Hengyan that day showed such sadness and despair that he had never seen before.

Yin Chun once thought that he couldn't extricate himself because of the pain after the bone needle pierced his heart.It is only now that I understand that if a person is full of expectations and longings, but is repeatedly abandoned and pushed away, until the end, there is still nothing but an empty shell—maybe those pleasing expectations gradually fade away with time. Disappeared, scattered, that is, there is really nothing left.

As it is with puppets, so it is with people.

Yin Chun supported Xie Hengyan with both hands, and stayed in the sea for a while.The body of the puppet is relatively light, and it will float when exposed to water. As long as it does not make excessive movements, it will hardly appear to sink.

Yin Chun hugged him, as if holding a life-saving straw invisible. The two cuddled each other, floating slowly in the fiery evening and sunset. When the evening was approaching, they finally broke apart on the abandoned cargo ship. In the small warehouse in the village, I accidentally found a small fishing boat.

Yin Chun held Xie Hengyan with one hand, and kept sliding forward with the other, and then used all his strength to pull the fishing boat along the bottom of the cargo ship, dragging and pulling it out of the water abruptly.At that time, the stern of the ship was scalded by high temperature, and part of it was scorched, but it was barely usable.

Yin Chun leaned on the side of the boat to rest for a while, and finally got up all his strength, bent over from the outside and rolled in, while Xie Hengyan nestled in the water silently and docilely, quietly watching Yin Chun busy, but never made any next move.

Yin Chun turned around and saw him, and stretched out his hand to pull him: "You won't come up?...Give me your hand."

Xie Hengyan looked up at him, just about to say something, suddenly a gust of sea waves came along with the wind, completely submerging the puppet's thin figure in an instant.Fortunately, Yin Chun had quick eyes and quick hands, and immediately grabbed his wrist with such force that the wooden wrist bones made a crisp sound.

However, the water surface after the waves is not stable. Before one wave calms down, another wave is hidden in an unknown place underwater, ready to go.In addition, Xie Hengyan and Yin Chun were moving around at the same end of the fishing boat, if one accidentally failed to control their strength, it would easily lead to a bad result of capsizing the boat.

"Come up quickly, don't dawdle." Yin Chunling said, "It will be dark in a while."

With a crash, Xie Hengyan struggled to get half of his head out of the water.Then he opened his eyes, and there was a short look between his dark and clear pupils and Yin Chun.

At that moment, in the eyes of the puppet, there were too many things that Yin Zhen could not understand, like sadness, but more like the relaxation and relief obtained after a long period of hardship.

...or in other words, it was a kind of calm that was almost on the verge of death.

Xie Hengyan only raised his head and looked at Yin Chun for a short moment.

——Then he lowered his eyelashes, tried to pull Yin Chu back to his five fingers, and let go silently.

Yin Zhen: "!!!"

Immediately afterwards, there was another wave, which hit Xie Hengyan's head impartially, and with the heavy sound of slight water splashing, the puppet's pale face sank into the bottom of the boat, and the hands that were originally clasped by the stern were also loosened. The sea wind and the waves that followed were engulfed into the water together, completely disappearing from sight.

All of a sudden, Yin Chun felt his mind was blank.

What is that a puppet, that is a demon, that is a monster that should be put to death... These stubborn thoughts that have never been eliminated, at this moment, seem to be soaked in salt water, and they are thrown out of his mind once and for all, completely lost The imprisonment brought by the initial reason.

What kind of monster, demon, ghost... that is clearly a life!

Even if the so-called equality of all living beings does not exist in the world, but in front of Yin Chun, this puppet saved his life and never tried to harm the lives of others.He is no different from any ordinary and kind ordinary person, but why must he live humblely at the feet of others, being a pet puppet that can be discarded at any time?

At that time, Yin Chun didn't know where the strength came from, and immediately jumped over from the stern of the boat, submerged headlong into the cold and salty sea water, and then opened his arms, before Xie Hengyan was hit by the waves and sank to the bottom, he was dragged forcibly. Drag him all the way out of the water.

——And this time, Yin Zhuxue was smarter, whether Xie Hengyan wanted it or not, he picked him up first by the neck, threw him into the boat with a grunt, and locked him with one arm.

At first, the puppet would kick a few times symbolically, but then it was tilted on the bow of the boat, and all the remaining strength could only be used to choke the water.I don't know how much sea water I drank during this trip, Xie Hengyan coughed for a long time, and the coughing became worse and worse, when Yin Chu stretched out his hand to help him, he rolled his eyes and sprayed someone with a puff Face.

Coughing violently after finishing the work, Yin Chun turned over and returned to the boat, gently helped him up, pulled him to the side of the boat and lowered his head to choke, then patted him on the back, and asked while patting: "……does it worth?"

Xie Hengyan didn't make a sound, his chin was so low that he was about to slip into the water, Yin Chun went to grab him again, but Xie Hengyan blocked it with a single hand.

Yin Chun: "You..."

Xie Hengyan still didn't say a word, he buried his head on the side of the boat, and waited until the salt water in his chest was choked clean, but suddenly he fell limp as if he lost strength, and curled up his whole body into a ball with all his strength.

Afterwards, Yin Zhu could clearly hear a rustling noise coming from all the joints of the puppet, which resembled a cracking sound of dead wood.

"……What's wrong?"

Yin Chun stepped forward suddenly, and grabbed Xie Hengyan's wrist.But it felt that the cold and stiff flesh under the puppet sleeve was trembling slightly at that time.

Xie Hengyan forcefully opened his tired eyes. After holding back for a while, he finally clenched his teeth and said in a low voice, "I... I seem to..."

...Like what?

Yin Chun's pupils shrunk slightly, and immediately noticed an abnormality keenly.So he lowered his head, and pushed Xie Hengyan's light blue sleeves outward a little, revealing a layer of bruised flesh.

——This puppet originally had many pinholes and bruises.Now, after being soaked and corroded by seawater for a long time, these wooden wounds swelled wildly, causing the fragile skin on the inner side to crack and burst, and some of them were even more serious, and even tended to fester and die.

"Why is this happening?" Yin Zhu asked in a low voice, his face darkening.

However, what answered him was the sob of the puppet on the verge of collapse.

Xie Hengyan's face was pale, his hands and feet were stiff, and in between weak struggles, he couldn't stop making painful trembling sounds.Yin Chun wanted to go over to pull him, but he kicked him hard with his heels. The two of them had no time to say a word, and then they went up and down from Xie Hengyan Zhou, but suddenly made "click", "click", a burst of similar The strange sound of breaking dead wood.

"...Does it hurt?" Sweat dripped from the corners of Yin Chun's forehead, and he hurriedly went up to grab Xie Hengyan's precarious body, "What's the discomfort?"

Xie Hengyan shuddered in his throat, his jet-black almond eyes were dripping with scarlet blood, and every inch of his bones and veins were trembling with piercing buzzing sounds one after another.

——This voice is actually not unfamiliar to Yin Zhu.

The first time I met the puppet Liu Zhou'er in the Kongzhan Tower earlier, and later when I stepped into the Li Mansion where the prison was sealed and compensated in Fuze Mountain, Yin Chun and Xie Hengyan were almost killed by the fierce and sharp minions of the puppet twice.And these sounds are undoubtedly a sign of the drastic changes in their bodies.

"Could it be... that puppets can't soak in water?"

Yin Chunfan woke up suddenly, and it was only now that he recalled that Xie Hengyan's cautiousness before bathing, and the extreme state of losing his mind when he encountered water many times afterwards-it was not because he was nervous and afraid, but because the puppet's physique was extremely special. If you don't pay attention to it when you are immersed in water, your wooden skin will be severely corroded.

"Is it because of this?" Yin Chun turned around and pressed Xie Hengyan's shoulder.But at this moment, he had already ruthlessly shrunk himself into a ball, not allowing anyone to touch him at all, and he still refused to say anything when asked him.

Although Yin Chun has been expelling demons for so many years, he has never encountered such an emergency.

What's more, he has never really raised a puppet, and he has no idea what he needs to pay attention to on weekdays.In the past, Xie Hengyan never told him clearly because of his precautions.

So what should we do now?

The puppet in front of him was so painful that his facial features were distorted, his limbs twitched, and his body was full of abnormal noises when layers of rotten wood collapsed.Yin Chun had no choice but to undo Xie Hengyan's outer robe with one hand. It turned out that the area around his neck was originally white and clean, but after soaking in the cold and salty sea water, it had gradually faded. Broken chapped momentum.

...You can't just watch him die on the boat like this.

Yin Zhu crouched beside him in a state of desperation. He was really in a hurry, but he didn't even have a clue to solve the problem.

"Is there a fire?"

Suddenly, Xie Hengyan opened her scarlet eyes, gritted her teeth in extreme pain and said to Yin Chun tremblingly, "Think of a way to... dry the clothes."

Yin Chun didn't expect the puppet to be able to speak, so he glanced at him rather unexpectedly: "...Are you alright?"

"Nonsense." Xie Hengyan gritted her teeth almost faintingly, and there was even a trace of regret in her voice, "Just now...if you hadn't scooped me up, I wouldn't have...become like this."

Yin Chu: "..."

"I hate you to death... Hey, really... It hurts too much." Xie Hengyan said in an incomparably twisted way, "Why, when you bullied me... you didn't know how to be soft-hearted. Now you have learned to fake compassion?"

Yin Chun's throat choked slightly, and he didn't know how to answer him for a moment: "...do you want to die that much?"

Xie Hengyan closed her eyes, and lay back calmly: "I'm just...a dead thing, so why do I say that I'm alive?"

Before he finished speaking, there was a steady stream of warmth from his waist.Xie Hengyan tilted his head tiredly, feeling Yin Zhuan's big warm hands encircling him, firmly clinging to him.

Xie Hengyan asked dumbly, "What are you doing?"

"Amulet paper." Yin Zhudan said.

The puppet said in a daze: "...what the hell?"

Yin Chun turned around and was busy again.After a while, I saw him take out a few crumpled thin papers from his pockets, most of which were painted with dense patterns, which had been completely soaked by the sea water, but some familiar shapes could still be discerned.

"I still have some talisman paper left on me...it can heat up and start a fire."

After Yin Chun finished speaking, he spread out the talisman paper, carefully pasted it into Xie Hengyan's palm, until it was completely close to the puppet's gradually decaying five fingers, between the two raised knuckles, and gently applied a little force——

There was a crackle, an inaudible sharp sound.Under the urging of the technique, the talisman paper suddenly ignited a faint fire.

"Severe, powerful." Xie Hengyan managed to open one eye and stared at the flickering fire in front of him. After a while, Fang smiled bitterly and said, "Your things are all used to burn monsters."

Yin Chun did not give an answer, but raised his eyes to look at the dozens of black smoke curling up into the sky.

And the cargo ship that burned after the raging fire has been completely torn apart.Most of the heavy objects sank to the bottom of the water, and there were no traces left, only a few fragmented wooden railings were left shaking, floating on the surface of the sea, which was exactly the same as their current embarrassing situation.

An exhausted living man with a battered puppet.The two of them sat together in the middle of a dilapidated and damaged boat. They had no food and no direction. When the afterglow of the setting sun faded away, there was no light around them. All they could use to focus their sight was the palm of their hand. The flames ignited by that talisman paper.

Flickering and dimming, and sometimes let the sea breeze blow, it can be completely wiped out at once.

Yin Chun hugged Xie Hengyan, rolled him up, and sat on his lap.At this moment, Xie Hengyan didn't cry about the pain anymore, she just nestled quietly in his arms to warm up, half-closed her docile almond eyes, not knowing what one person was thinking in silence.

Yin Chun asked, "Where should we go?"

Xie Hengyan looked up at Yin Chun.After thinking about it, he said, "Just this broken boat, it's not bad if it can float. Do you still want to land on the shore?"

Yin Chun only said: "I don't intend to spend my whole life floating on the sea."

"Where does it take a lifetime? You will die within five days." Xie Hengyan said with a sense of collapse, "I can't save you now... You can find a way to live on your own. If you really can't, you can go swimming."

Hearing this, Yin Chun was stunned for a while, he didn't know what he thought of, suddenly fell silent for a long time, and didn't speak out for a long time.

Xie Hengyan asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

At that time, the sky was completely dark, and the remaining flames of the sun hung overhead, which turned into a few scattered stars.

Yin Chun lowered his eyelashes and carefully looked at the puppet's warm and soft side face, dark eyes, and pale lips, trying to find something that had been lost for a long time, but could not be awakened from memory immediately.

But obviously, he failed.

Yin Chun didn't realize how indispensable and close connection he had with Xie Hengyan in the past.But he clearly remembered that Xie Hengyan said a word that day before washing his memory with mind control.

——He said that he once promised a person that he would always protect him perfectly.

So... Who is the person he was talking about?Is it related to Yin Zhu himself?

"I have something to ask you." Yin Chun said suddenly.

Xie Hengyan turned her head away, and said indifferently: "I don't want to hear it."

Yin Chu asked directly: "Did we know each other before?"

Xie Hengyan: "I don't know."

Yin Chun said helplessly, "You tell the truth."

Xie Hengyan closed her eyes and said unwaveringly: "This is the truth."

Yin Chun said: "It's all like this, do you still want to hide the matter and refuse to tell it?"

"...Yin Chun, I'm feeling very sad now." Xie Hengyan said with a dull expression, "I also want to ask, why am I like this, and you still have to break the casserole and ask the end... I think my life is too long ?"

Yin Chu suddenly misfired: "I didn't mean that, I just..."

Xie Hengyan took a deep breath: "... Sigh."

"..."

Yin Chun told him that he had nothing to say with this long sigh, and he stood by himself for a while, but finally couldn't hold back any words, so he had to take the initiative to subdue: "I... don't ask, you can rest."

Anyway, since the accidental injury to him last time, there seemed to be a gap between the two of them, and it was almost impossible to say a word in anger.

Now the puppet is a hedgehog with fried hair.If he rubs along the hair, he likes to ignore it, but if he rubs against the hair, he has to turn his face immediately—in short, Xie Hengyan is not without temper, he just dedicated all his tenderness and obedience to Xie Cong, and the rest Violent, savage and willful, they were born for other people.

In fact, Yin Chun still had a lot of doubts about him, but some words came to his lips, but he couldn't say anything.

Now people are in the vast sea, the situation is extremely difficult, and Xie Hengyan is injured, and he was kicked out by his good father like a ball, now I am afraid that all thoughts are lost, even the thought of committing suicide, what else is there to do? Can't come out?

Yin Zhu, who realizes this, should also learn to be smarter.

His original temperament has always been cold, arrogant and tough, and he doesn't like to speculate on other people's thoughts.But this time, if a stubborn stone encounters a piece of half-baked wood, one party must make a concession in advance, otherwise it will be the two parties who will be hit head-on.

What's more, the wood was scarred and rotten from the inside to the outside. It would be too inhuman for Yin Zhu to return him at this time to make things worse.

So one person and one puppet sitting on this small broken boat quickly reached a subtle consensus under the critical situation - no matter what happens, they are determined not to provoke each other again.

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——Congratulations to the player [Yin Chu] for obtaining a prop [Puppet Abandoned Again].

Let me tell you about the next story.

Later, Yin Chun and the puppet floated on the boat for a whole month, and the puppet said: "I really can't hold on anymore, I feel like I can't survive."

Yin Chun held the puppet's hands tightly: "It's okay, you still have me here."

The two hugged each other and poked their mouths, the kind of French tongue kiss.

In the end, Xie Hengyan was so hungry that he cooked the seal and ate it.

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Ps: The above are all nonsense, there is only one update today, but it is a joint chapter.

Yin Chun is actually slowly changing his temper. Of course, it is impossible to change it all at once. Now I can only say that Yin Chun is trying to accommodate and make concessions for Xie Hengyan.

The wounds on the puppet need time to heal, but Yin Zhu is not the kind of character who can coax people, so it also takes time to get used to it.

Anyway, the next few chapters are all about their interactions... the love copy, two people after life and death, there will be many differences.You know, don’t dislike the fact that sugar sticks to your teeth~